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Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) Center Manager, Jackson Kabuyaya Mbeke, was recently named a 2014 Disney Conservation Hero by the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. This annual competitive award was given to 19 conservationists from around the world who were

By Claire Martin, Disney Conservation Programs Manager & Rachel Daneault, Primate Zoological Manager, Disney’s Animal Kingdom “Are you taking guns in with you?” was one of the more matter-of-fact questions we were asked when we told people that we were heading to eastern Democrati

By Beth Schaefer, Curator of Primates and Carnivores at the Houston Zoo One of the things that people who work in a zoological institution can do to help in situ conservation programs is what is known as capacity building. This entails a transfer of knowledge from experienced staff t